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Page 30 of 1151954 · PDF PAGE 8
…My Physical Eye 356 58 Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? 362 59 Geomancy 367 60 Knack 371 61 Power and Authority 374 62 The Elastic Mind 378 63 Fear: A Bad Astral Vision 380 64 Magical Power 391 65 Man 395 66 Vampires 397 67 Faith 403 68 The God-Letters 407 69 Original Sin 415 70 Morality (I) 419 71 Morality (2) 425 72 Education 430 73 "Monsters," Niggers, Jews 442 74 Obstacles on the Path 446 75 The A:. A :. and the Planet 453 76 The Gods:-How and Why They Overlap 464 77 Work Worthwhile: Why? 468 78 Sore Spots 473 79 Progress 481 80 Life …
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
…st); then the stature , whether lithe, well-knit, sturdy, muscular, fat or what not; in short every bodily feature in turn; make up your mind what sign was rising at birth, and stick to it! Again, you can practice this in cafes, when you visit civilized countries, and it is often possible to scrape acquaintance with people who look specially interesting, and do not, as in England, instantly suspect you of dishonourable advances, and get them to play up. This is sometimes easier when you are already with that friend which I was so lax as to allo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
…e ! Come, dissect me ! Rip the skin ! Tear the bleeding flesh apart ! See ye all my hellish grin While the straining vitals smart. Never mind ! Go in and win, Till you reach my gory heart !
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
…nknowable!” Thus did that knightly Saracen In Cantabrig’s miasmal fen Lecture to many learned men. So clamorous was their applause— “His mind” (said they) “is free of flaws: The Veil of God is thin as gauze! ”— That almost they had dulled or drowned The laughter (in its belly bound) Of that dread Beast he had not found. Nathless—although he would away— They forced the lack-luck knight to stay And lecture many a weary day. Verily, almost he had caught The infection of their costive thought, And brought his loyal quest to naught. It was by night …
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…but her lover’s must be overcome by my own. I hâve no direct control of either. But my Will is in touch with the woman’s by means of our minds; I hâve only to make my mind the master of hers by the existing means of communication; her mind will then présent its recantation to her Will, her Will repeal its decision, and her body submit to mine as the seal of her surrender. Here the Magical Link exists; only it is complex instead of simple as in the First Class. There is opportunity for ail kinds of error in the transmission of the Will; misunder…
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…, I believe I can find you a typescript of all the official documents. If so, I will let you have them to read, and you can make up your mind as to whether you wish to affiliate to the Third Degree of the Order. I should consequently, in the case of your deciding to affiliate, go with you through the script of the Rituals and explain the meaning of the whole thing; communicating, in addition , the real secret and significant knowledge of which ordinary Masonry is not possessed. 4. The horoscope; I do not like doing these at all, but it is part …
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…y. CASTOR. In truth, my friend, if you would wear your crown This side of Orcus, you should go away. POLLUX. Ay! let the men work! For a mind as yours Is good, and skill as theirs is also good. CASTOR. But mix the manual and the mental—well, No ship was built by pure philosophy. POLLUX. Nor yet designed by artisans. JASON. Enough Come, great Alcides, it is time to go. ARGUS. A fool allows a moment’s irritation
1913 · PDF PAGE 228
…th Grotesque array of half - fidelity , Half -love, half -wisdom ; all this misery Of wondering ? But when shall we with smooth And easy mind say “ Look ! for here is truth , Here love , and here the godhead certainty ." Shall that god come ? or must we bear about With us the torment of a sleepless wit ? Still shirk acceptance ? Still desire to prove ? And even in life 's best moment , paled with doubt , Between the passion and the chill of it Be cursed with wonder “ Is this really love ? " * THE LITTLE OWL . ( On the Upper River , Cambridge .)…
1919 · PDF PAGE 145
…way, for he goes on: Now, had I really arrived at the End, it seems reasonable to suppose I should not be here writing this. My body and mind are at any rate still in existence as a body and mind. But, as these are admittedly impermanent, does it matter much that they continue to exist in this form or no? What has that to do with the Consciousness of the Existence of That which transcends both? Now, had not some part of my present State of Existence realized the pos- sibility of another and higher state of Consciousness, should I not still be i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 296
…the heroin when one didn’t feel so badly in need of it. Even after all this time I hadn’t quite got on to the peculiarities of the man’s mind. I had never reached the stage where I could be sure what he could say next. One day we were talking about Lou’s Chinese appearance; and he said quite seriously that he must have some Chinese blood in him or was the reincarnation of a Chinese philosopher. Ko Yuen, I think he said the name was. He said that he owed it to his European reason to explain categorically why his thoughts had such an Asiatic cast…
1902 · PDF PAGE 81
…! Merely to love—to take such pride in it Gods must behold ! The childish easiness, Impossible to me, who am become Perhaps the subtlest mind of men. Alas ! Maybe in this I still am self-deceived, Merely the fool swelled up with bitter words, Imagination, and the toadstool growth, Thought, wounded ; as a scorpion to sting Its own bruised life out. This is Tannhauser! How long ago since he took pleasure in Such love— [-(4 horn winds. such music as yon horn below— \A chant is heard. Such worship as the simple chant that steals Calm and majestic i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…e austerely ordered brain! Darwin and Taine, Descartes and Boyle, Inscribe thou on the Tower of Toil! Those who have striven to limn the mind, Paint, model, tune, or hymn the light, Their vision of the world refined By mastery of superior sight: Honour their might! the gain have these Of all men’s woes and ecstasies! High soul; no benediction seek From any spirit but our own! Crown not the mighty with the weak! The Tower be a Tower, and not a Throne! In man-carved stone the endless coil Arise untopped, the Tower of Toil! 18
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
Life is a dream, like love; and from the dream If we may wake, we never find it what ‘We would; for the wisdom ofa mightier mind Leads us in its own ways To a perfected praise. Crassus. ‘Why are these shadows thrown across the lawn From the elms and yews? They were not wont to reach Beyond the branches of that copper-beech. Aucta. Attend the dawn Of an unknown comet, that shall come From the unfathomable weils of space Into its halidom, Crassus. I know it not. Last night I walked alone Here, and saw nothing. Autcta. I was not with yout There is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
… that void skies sprawled On the vain sod ! Ail soûls eternally exist, Each individual, ultimate, Perfect -— each makes itself a mist Of mind and flesh to celebrate With some twin mask their tender tryst Insatiate. — 229
1922 · PDF PAGE 337
… that there is no possibility of amusing oneself in any of the ordinary ways. In London one could waste one’s life before bringing one’s mind to the point where Big Lion wants it. So one finds oneself immediately up against the fact that one has got to find something to do. Well, we go and ask Big Lion; and Big Lion says: ‘Do what thou wilt.’ ‘But, yes,’ we say, ‘what is that?’ He replies rudely, ‘Find out.’ We ask how to find out; and he says, ‘How do you know what is the good of a motor- car?’ Well, we think a bit ; and then we tell him that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…y great operation must be thought out and composed; according to elaborate rules, indeed, but with the purpose of the work constantly in mind. Even when all this is done, the Grimoire is hardly begun; for it must be copied out in the way above indicated; and it should be illuminated with every kind of appropriate design. This was an ideal task for Arthwait; he was able to wallow in dog-latin and corrupt Greek-Coptic; he made sentences so complicated that the complete works of George Meredith, Thomas Carlyle, and Henry James, tangled together, w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
… is vital that the Adept should train his inteilectual faculties to tell him the truth, in the measure of their capacity. To despise the mind on account of its limitations is the most disastrous blunder; it is the common cause of the calamities which strew so many shores with the wreckage of the Mystic Armada. Bigotry, Arrogance, Éewilderment, ail fcrms of mental and moral disorder, so often observed in people of great spiritual attainment, hâve brought the Path ’tself into discrédit; almost ail such catastrophes are due to trying to build the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 74
…et the might Of Osirian sacrifice Dwell upon the self-slain king! Consecrate him, consecrate him, consecrate, ye holy ones, The imperial mind Thrice, and thrice the higher soul, Thrice the spirit, till the sun’s Utter glory burn upon him, till the freed Osiris find He is god above mankind, Thrice united unto man, As the living gold that ran Molten to the fiery sea, Mixed in its eternity. Spirit of the Gods! Unite Streams of sacramental light In the soul, thrice purified, Consecrated thrice, Till Osiris justified In the supreme sacrifice Take hi…
1901 · PDF PAGE 99
…here the ways Of lofty corridors, and foaming seas, And crag-hewn pinnacles, accept the wind’s Wild fingers: not even the eagle-piercing mind's Chill sword of thought: a woman’s agony Yet draws its beauty from the sacred sea. Hear how this fell. A stern Dissenter dwelt Lone in a fertile valley: lonely he, Lonelier the sharp-faced wife: each day they knelt In loveless worship: thrice a week they see
1902 · PDF PAGE 76
…s, and the scent Subtle and sinful — thine, all thine, are these, What with my heart that only beats for thee, The many-throned and many-minded soul Centred to do thee worship. Hither, hither! TannhAuser. This shakes my spirit as a winnower Whose fan is the eternal breath of God ; Yet on my forehead I perceive a star That shames thy beauties and thy manifold Mind with its tiny triple flame. I go! Venus. Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TannhAuser. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work 74